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S11 - SEATTLE PART 2?

"Aussie children recruited for the same violent protests that turned Seattle into a battleground.." Mike Munro, A Current Affair, Channel 9.

September 11, the next date to look out for, is the day the World Economic Forum comes to Melbourne's Crown Casino, a conference event involving CEOs from the globes top 1000 companies.

The S11 Alliance is the group heading the preparations for the protest on the day outside the casino. Up to 10000 are expected to attend and what's more, the youth socialist group Resistance estimate 3000 of their members will boycott school to be at the rally, some as young as 13. With evident risk and a very real potential of ending up like the WTO protest in Seattle last year, it is sure to be a media frenzy. (Arggghhh! Victorian riot cops - look out! Sorry - couldn't resist).

Melbourne Socialist Party's Steven Jollie said he can't guarantee that there won't be any violence.

"Kids are exploited by McDonalds, Hungry Jacks and these bogus work for the dole schemes... we're not taking their money off them...", Jollie said when challenged by the ACA reporter. Resistance and the DSP are not exploiting kids or recruiting children to do their dirty work - quote the Offspring song "the kids aren't alright" - and they are starting to realise that there are other options out there... that things as they are now need to change. Kids are a lot smarter these days. More information can be found on the S11 website.